Like a true villain, Red Devil didn’t galumph about for a moment, “You better entertain me, cutie,” she cooed before jumping up out of the cave, and calling back. “Coming?! Oops, phrasing!”

Drake starred, feeling a lot more out of sorts, and still a bit mo~

“Hero, or the Villain?”

Drake spun about.

There were others with him too, he hadn’t realized it, but he had saved a few of the crew from the dig.

“Me?” He stammered, “Oh, uh, neither, I mean, I’m just~”

“He saved us, he’s a hero! And he’ll beat her!” One of the others shouted from the darkness.

Drake smiled, his constructs taking up rank to either side of him, even the two carnotaurus he had transformed into diamonds came out again, their bones reforming from the diamond dust. He felt the ancient power in them, he could tell what the one even thought knew it was happy and that it was waiting for his command to release its victorious roar.

Drake smiled, “I won’t say hero, but, I’m ready for round two,” and he raised his hand.

Everyone in the quarry froze, looking up at the one of his Carno as she suddenly screamed.

“WASSSSSSSSSSUUUUUUPPP!”

Drake turned to look up at the fourteen-foot-tall monster.

“What?”

“Ohh Cuz… check me out! I’m a freaking Dinosaur again!” She barked with a laugh. She waved her tiny fossil arms, “Dam Cuz! I’m’a T-rex!”

“Well you’re a dinosaur, but how can you speak English?”

“Oh bra, I like, totally remember back, like seventy-two million years ago, I was all ‘CHOMP CHOMP, LITTLE DINOS’, an this one time, I was even a straight up legit Egyptian dude named Shabti! I cleaned up the workplace of some serious architectural dudes building a pyramid, so tight!” 

“Then why do you sound like you’re from California?”

“Yo Cuz~” she growled, “Not cool, I’m Hawaiian, awe man I died, like, wait, what day is it?”

“It’s October,” she stared at him still, “Oh, uh twenty-thirty.” 

“Shut up, seriously Cuz! I totally died like four months ago! That’s so gnarly, I broke my neck on some rocks ripping a sweet barrel, awe well, you live and learn I say. From surfer dude to the Queen of the freakin Dinosaurs! So cool! So… what now?”

Her tail beat back and forth excitedly.

“Awwwwe Snap,” she crowed, and swung around chasing it a little. “My tail! Oh… flashback Cuz… I think I was totally a poodle once!”

Drake sat back hard, caught by the tip of the long paddle-like tail of his Spino.

“Thanks,” he said dumbfounded.

“But of course, Masser,” she purred in a French accent.

“So you all?”

The others nodded.

The other Carno looking at her sister of sorts.

“Not sure how you did this, I seem to have perfect recall of all my lives but, I don’t remember anything between my lives. And I also died only a short while ago. I’m Lynn.”

“Not me, Yvette,” the spino said in a breathy tone that made Drake shiver, “I died many years ago, early, serty years ago.”

He didn’t know the reason, but he knew what he had to do.

“Let’s get these folks out.”

“And zen?” Asked Yvette.

“We’re gonna kick Red Devil’s ass.”